Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Huon Peninsula, Mongi River watershed, Wamuki, 800 m., 19-20.iv.1955, no. 844 (
E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository:
MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: >80 paratype workers, 6 paratype queens, 1 paratype ergatoid queen. Secondary type locality: 20 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype, unnumbered paratype workers, 3 paratype queens Huon Peninsula, between lower Busu River and Bupu River, nr Lae, 28.iv.1955, no. 887 (
E.O. Wilson), 50-60 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens with same data as last but no. 990, 10 paratype workers, 1 paratype ergatoid queen Papua New Guinea: Wau Creek, 1200m. (
D.H., A.C. & A.H. Kistner). Secondary type depositories:
ANIC,
BMNH,
MCZC.